OpenGrid was launched almost one year ago. Since that time, users have been providing feedback on how the platform can be even easier to navigate their neighborhoods. Over the past few months, the team has continued to focus on bettering the user experience and making data more easily accessible to the user as they navigate [...]More...

Back in April, the City of Chicago partnered with one of the Smart Chicago Collaborative anchor programs, the Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup), to host a UX testing feedback session attended by more than 20 Chicago residents for OpenGrid. The purpose of these tests was not only to engage all of Chicago in the civic app [...]More...

This week, the City released the newest version of OpenGrid, v1.1.0 with a number of enhancements that is now available in the project repository and users of opengrid.io. Queries with Relative Dates Now you can search and save queries where certain dates fall within relative date ranges. A relative date range is a period of [...]More...

Six months ago, the City of Chicago launched OpenGrid, an open-source platform to view data about your city, your neighborhood, or even your block. OpenGrid evolved from the city’s internal, proprietary WindyGrid project. Today, OpenGrid now forms the bones for WindyGrid. But unlike WindyGrid, OpenGrid’s code is publicly available online and is part of Chicago’s mission to work [...]More...

Three months ago, Chicago released OpenGrid, a project which lets you explore data in your neighborhood. This week, we released v1.0.2, which has fixed a number of bugs discovered since the launch, many of them by helpful members of the public. We’ve improved documentation at a number of points, but the biggest improvements has been [...]More...

We’ve released a new version of RSocrata with two new, big features. You can now upload data to Socrata using the new “write.socrata()” function. If you have a dataframe ready to go in R, and you’ve already setup a corresponding schema in Socrata, you can use your Socrata credentials to upload the data directly from R. This [...]More...